This chapter is based on the story quest "The Corpse Hider's Wife" and is not original, so it's free!

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Many years ago, Nightshade was inhabited by a young man named Abel Clonby, who grew up healthy with the help of his neighbors and townspeople after his parents died when he was a child. At the age of twelve, an old mage passing by discovered his alchemical talent and brought him back to Stormwind. There, he inherited the mantle of the old mage and became an amazing alchemist.

But at the age of thirty, Abel, who had a great future, suddenly returned to Nightshade and opened a small potion shop here. No one knows why he chose to do this, and some people who have been to Stormwind say that he was disheartened because of a failed love affair and came back here, but it was all gossip and no real evidence.

But for the townspeople, it's a great thing, because they finally have a proper alchemist. This young man was kind and sincere, and he was proficient in medical skills, and anyone who had any disease only needed to drink a dose of the potion he had prepared, or he would be cured in a day.

But perhaps because of that failed relationship, Abel has always been obsessed with his alchemy, and has no interest in romance and love, no matter how the girls in the town hint or even explicitly say it, they can't win his favor, so for many years, he lives alone. This continued for twelve years, until when Abel was forty-two years old, Alyssa's family moved from out of town to Nighttown. The night after they moved in, Elisa's mother became seriously ill due to the fatigue of the journey, and Alyssa had to knock on Abel's door in the middle of the night, and also knocked on the door of his closed heart.

Of course, Alyssa's mother was quickly cured, but at the same time, Abel's love was also rekindled like a whole barrel of oil, and Alyssa also had a good impression of this erudite alchemist, although Alyssa's father complained about Abel's age, but from the bottom of his heart, Abel would be a good husband. Soon, Alyssa and Abel, who were only twenty years old, became a sweet newlywed.

It's like heaven. As if she really didn't want Abel to have a beautiful love, Alyssa got a strange illness when she was less than two years of marriage, and Abel couldn't make a potion that could save her life after digging through the medical books and alchemy books. Late one night after a week in the hospital bed, Alyssa died in Abel's arms, and the neighbors who came to visit her the next day saw only Elisa's cold body and a gray-haired Abel.

Alyssa's family, friends and neighbors held a grand funeral for her, but when it was time to finally bury her coffin, Able snatched it back and brought Alyssa's body back to the room. Everyone thought that Abel was overly sad and tried to persuade him, but the door of Abel's house was closed, and he locked himself and Alyssa in the room, and no one was seen.

Two days later, Abel's door opened, and everyone was surprised to see Alyssa slowly walking out with Abel's support, "Abel used alchemy to resurrect Elisa", and the news suddenly spread.

Elisa, who came back from the dead, was much weaker than before, could not see the sun, could not see the wind, often stayed in the house to recuperate, and she has always lost her appetite, whether it is freshly baked bread or fresh fruit, or her favorite vegetable salad made by her mother in the past, she can't eat a bite, Abel prescribed her a lot of appetizing medicines, but none of them worked, so the neighbors often heard Abel's faint cry next door in the middle of the night.

People felt a lot of sympathy for the ill-fated couple, but their attention was soon diverted because of the big news coming out of Nighttown: the corpses of the Silent Garden Cemetery south of Nighttown were lost one after another. Every few days, morning patrols find a grave in the cemetery that has been dug up and the coffin opened, but only the body is missing.

For a time, the rumor that the evil spirits of Crow Ridge in the east had resurrected the corpses in the cemetery made the residents of the entire Night Town panic, and everyone was afraid that their familiar relatives, friends, and neighbors would become inhumane undead after death, and then kill themselves. In order to reassure people's hearts, Duke Eberlock asked all the relatives of the deceased to immediately open the coffin to see if the deceased showed signs of resurrection, and that a large wooden nail must be inserted into the heart of all the deceased to nail the deceased to the coffin completely. However, these actions still had no effect, and the corpses were still lost every two or three days, until one day, a patrolling night watchman passed by the small cemetery to discover the truth.

That night, the Night's Watch team saw a shadow in the small cemetery, and they saw Alyssa crouching next to a coffin that had just been dug up from the ground, and finally when everyone got closer, they saw that she was gnawing on the corpse with relish.

The frightened night watchman hurriedly reported to Duke Eberlock, and the next day, led by the duke, everyone arrived at Abel's door. The Duke politely and sternly asked Abel to bring out Alyssa, who had been recuperating in the room for a long time and refused to see others, to meet everyone, but Abel was under pressure and had to walk back to the room and bring out Elisa.

It was summer, but Alyssa was wearing a thick dress, tightly wrapped from head to toe, with a black scarf hanging from the brim of her hat completely covering her face, and a pair of black gloves on her hands. Although she wore a lot of Ebel's carefully formulated perfumes, everyone still smelled a foul stench coming from her.

Duke Eberlock asked Abel to take off Elisa's veil, but Abel firmly disagreed, and out of respect for Abel, the Duke finally had to retreat and ask to take off Elisa's gloves. When Abel slowly removed his gloves, everyone saw a pair of hands covered with corpse spots.

It turned out that whether it was medical treatment or alchemy, Abel had not found a way to bring the dead back to life. In his devastating grief after the loss of his wife, he thought of a vial that a friend of his had sent him a few years earlier. The vial contained a small drop of plague taken from the ruins of Lordaeron, a sample given to him by a friend for his research. The day after snatching back his wife's body, Abel took out the vial, opened the tightly corked cap, and dripped the green liquid in the bottle into Elisa's mouth, and in less than an hour, Abel was pleasantly surprised to find that Elisa had come back to life.

After Alyssa was resurrected, Abel did a comprehensive examination for her, and he was saddened to find that Alyssa was not really resurrected, but only a living corpse that could act and sentient. But everything will be fine, Abel firmly believes that in his eyes, no matter what becometh to his lover, he loves her the same.

Alyssa lost her appetite for everything, whether it was fresh bread or fruit, and with Abel's encouragement, she could only barely take a small bite, and then forced herself to swallow it, but as soon as it reached her stomach, she vomited it again. Abel prescribed a lot of appetizers for this, but it didn't work at all. However, Abel soon discovers that Alyssa seems to have developed a great interest in meat, especially human flesh. Fearing that something would happen, he stayed by his wife's side at all times.

One night, Abel woke up in a daze to find that Alyssa was gone, and he was so shocked that he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to sit in the unlit room all night. When it was almost dawn, Alyssa returned, and when she returned to the room and saw Abel sitting on a chair waiting for her all night, she was scared like a child who had just done something wrong and was discovered by her parents.

After knowing what Alyssa had done, Abel took out a knife, he wanted to correct the mistake he had made, but when he saw Alyssa silently crying, what else could he do but hug her and cry bitterly? From then on, Abel didn't care what Alyssa did at night, and his wife was completely reduced to a ghoul who fed on human flesh.

When the people learned the truth, they decided to kill Alyssa immediately. Able was pressed to death by several strong young men, and watched everyone press Alyssa to the ground, and when he saw a sharp knife pierced Alyssa's chest and pulled out her heart, Abel fainted due to extreme grief and long-term exhaustion.

Since the whole town did not agree to bury Alyssa's body in the Quiet Garden cemetery, Abel had to bury her body in the northeastern corner of Raven Ridge, where he built a log cabin and moved there to spend time with his wife.

After this incident, many people in Nightlight Town called Abel "the corpse collector", and some of the people whose family members were violated by Alyssa hated him even more. However, out of morality and the practical needs of Nighttown, Duke Eberlock still asked the Night's Watch to send some food and herbs to Abel every few days, and also brought a note with the symptoms of the sick patients in Nighttown during this time, and brought back the medicine that Abel had prepared for the patients when he returned.

The night watchmen who came into contact with Abel said that Abel had changed, that he had become gloomy and cold, and that the friendly and enthusiastic Abel had disappeared and had been replaced by the person who had no night watchman willing to stay with him for a little longer. Abel returned to his fanatical devotion to alchemy, and at the same time he asked the Night's Watch to bring him some strange alchemy materials, and Duke Eberlock discussed with everyone that the Night's Watch could meet his request, after all, the potion that Abel had prepared was something that Nightshade could not refuse.

One night a year later, Abel finally completed his invention.

Abel first dug Alyssa out of the grave, poured her a special potion, and then drank a bottle of fake death for himself, and soon, his body became stiff and his blood stopped flowing. Abel pulled out his heart with a knife and placed it in Alyssa's chest. With the help of Abel's heart, Alyssa is resurrected again.

"Abel, is that you?" Alyssa sat up and asked in surprise, "Abel, I'm so hungry, I'm really hungry, did you bring anything to eat?" ”

Abel struggled to hug Alyssa with his stiff arms, but as soon as he exerted his strength, the blood from the wound on his chest spurted out violently, splashing all over her face.

"Oh, Abel. Abel, you look delicious, really delicious, can I take a bite of you? Oh, Abel, please, I'm so hungry......" she licked the blood from her face, unable to refuse the sweet taste.

The last thing Abel saw was to tear off a large piece of meat from his chest with his wife in his arms, and eat it beautifully.

Alyssa lay in the coffin after enjoying the delicious meal and stroked her bulging belly with satisfaction, she picked up the head of Abel who was specially left in remembrance, kissed him heavily on the mouth, and said happily: "Abel, you are so good to me!" I love you! ”

The next day, a hungry Alyssa eats the memorial head as well, and Raven Ridge has no food for her. Although there were corpses everywhere, the carrion from decades ago gave her no appetite, and Alyssa remembered the cemetery south of Nighttown, where there was plenty of fresh and delicious food.

After Alyssa ate seventeen more corpses in Nightshade, two Night's Watch, and a child, the Night's Watch team finally found and killed her, and in order to prevent her from being resurrected, her body was chopped into pieces and burned to ashes, and the ashes were buried behind Abel's hut. Since Abel's body has not been found, everyone agrees that he was also eaten by Alyssa, so this tomb can be regarded as a joint tomb of husband and wife, and everyone made a tombstone for them, and everyone wrote the inscription with mixed feelings.

From then on, Abel's hut was never visited again.